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- Subject: Re: Anyone interested in an intelligent serial board?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.054420.2584@yarc.uucp>
- From: dave@yarc.uucp (Dave Rifkind)
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 05:44:20 GMT
- Reply-To: dave@yarc.UUCP (Dave Rifkind)
- References: <92121815484@amscons.amscons.com> <1992Dec27.055652.412@yarc.uucp>
- Organization: Yarc Systems
- Keywords: RS-232 serial interface
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- In article <1992Dec27.055652.412@yarc.uucp> dave@yarc.UUCP (Dave Rifkind) (that's me) writes:
- >You'd better make that FIFO *really* big.
- >
- >I have an Intel SatisFAXtion/400. When working as a modem, it acts like
- >a 16450 except that it has an approx. 64K byte input buffer. I still
- >can't uucp without lost data. There's something much more seriously
- >wrong than just long interrupt latencies; you're not going to overflow a
- >64K buffer without working at it pretty hard.
-
- I didn't notice where I was cross-posting when I wrote this item.
- Thanks to those who sent me mail, but I should have made it clear that
- I'm talking about a Coherent problem. Those of you running 'real' OSs
- can now snicker to yourselves and go back to what you were doing....
- ;-)
- --
- you want to know whether i believe in ghosts of course i do not believe
- in them if you had known as many of them as i have you would not believe
- in them either
-